Taiwan president urges U.S. to continue arms sales (opens in new tab)

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said Sunday that Taiwan would never be “sacrificed or traded away” and defended U.S. arms sales as necessary to regional peace. Lai was responding after President Trump said a pending weapons package for Taiwan “depends on China” and called it a negotiating chip after his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. Lai said Taiwan would not give up sovereignty, dignity or its democratic way of life under pressure, and said there was no “Taiwan indepen...